Intel has an on-chip RdRand function which supposedly bypasses the normally used entropy pool for /dev/urandom and directly injects output. Now rumors are going on that Intel works together with the ...

As I understand it, SSL involved the use of a public-private key pair. How does this enable two-way communication?
Suppose I have some server with which I wish to communicate securely. I connect to ...

SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 used an insecure scheme to generate implicit IVs when encrypting records in CBC mode: they used the last part of the previous record, a value that can be predicted by the attacker. ...

The cipher AES-256 is used among other places in TSL/SSL across the Internet. It's considered among the top ciphers.
In theory it's not crackable since the combinations of keys are massive.
Although ...

In SSL protocols, both symmetric and asymmetric algorithms are used. Why is it so? The symmetric algorithms are more secure and easier to implement. Why are asymmetric algorithms usually preferred in ...

But recently, with the scandals about the (in)filtrations, I read that the NSA (and of course others, but I'm not particularly worried about NSA) is able to break SSL and track your data.
It is true? ...

I've discovered that a client has SEED enabled in their SSL ciphers, and would like to know a bit more about it from a security perspective. The Wikipedia article doesn't mention any flaws, yet I've ...

I am attempting to duplicate wireshark's packet capture decryption for a TLS HTTP session, where I control the private key of the server.
The cipher suite number is 0x00002f, TLS_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA
...

A "practical attack against XML's cipher block chaining (CBC) mode" has been demonstrated:
XML Encryption Flaw Leaves Web Services Vulnerable.
Does this weakness of CBC-mode which is used here also ...

Can you help me understand the differences, both algorithmic and practical, between RFC 5246 SessionID re-use and RFC 5077 Session Resumption?
Both appear to be ways to nail up a second TLS session ...

I'm working on software where multiple components will communicate with each other using SSL.
There would be one central component acting as a server, which would also require the clients to present ...

A more secure form of 'cookie' could be created for SSL communications through the following method.
The client generates and requests the server to sign a certificate.
Then the client authenticates ...

I am aware of at least rsa, elgamal-encryption, and variations of elliptic-curves relying on different problems and that those problems are considered hard.
However, if someone figures out a way to ...

I read briefly over the TSL/SSL key exchange protocol. I have to wonder about the whole pre-master-key procedure. Wouldn't it be sufficient if the client or server encrypted a generated session key ...